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“We Don’t Trust Miscarriages”: The Cruelty of Men

How dare you make more rules about my body? You have no idea what you are doing!

Martha Manning, Ph.D.
5 min readJul 27, 2022
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Armed with their superior medical, moral, and theological expertise, these malicious jokers have deigned to allow an abortion should we have one foot in the grave. Their proclamation is the “the life of the mother” is the exception to their rules. Do they really mean the LIFE of the mother, or her last breath?

Well, the life of this mother began before any life-death situation, but was one of the most medically important interventions necessary to protect my current and future health IN MY WHOLE LIFE.

Of 100 pregnant women, 10–15 will experience a miscarriage. That’s a lot of women and a devastating event that can haunt them forever. It is also a medical issue that requires rapid diagnosis and intervention.

If I had my two miscarriages now, my physical and mental health and my fertility would have been endangered by a vast majority of white bureaucrats who consider themselves to be representatives of God, rather than the bunch of people who elected them.

The new laws reflect more than a deficit in empathy.

These are cruel sons of bitches (overwhelmingly white and male) who carry their righteousness…

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Martha Manning, Ph.D.
Martha Manning, Ph.D.

Written by Martha Manning, Ph.D.

Dr. Martha Manning is a writer and clinical psychologist, author of Undercurrents and Chasing Grace. Depression sufferer. Mother. Growing older under protest.

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